Michael Goldfarb is the host of the FRDH, First Rough Draft of History, podcast and director of Certain Height, a production company making documentaries for BBC Radio networks.
He is in an American based in London and has been a foreign correspondent for more than 30 years. He has reported from 25 countries on five continents.
Throughout the 1990s he was NPR's London correspondent and then later a roving documentary maker for the NPR Boston affiliate, WBUR. His byline has appeared in NY Times, Washington Post, Guardian, Observer, Politico, Die Welt and Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung.
Goldfarb has covered conflicts and conflict resolution from Northern Ireland to Bosnia to the Middle East to Latin America. He covered the war in Iraq as an unembedded reporter based in Kurdistan. His book on the conflict, "Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace: Surviving Under Saddam, Dying in the New Iraq" was named one of the New York Times' Notable Books of 2005.
After September 11th he reported extensively on radical Islam from Cairo to Tehran to the streets of London. His report British Jihad: Inside Out won the Overseas Press Club's Lowell Thomas Award for Outstanding Radio Journalism.
Other major American awards include the DuPont-Columbia Award for his report Surviving Torture: Inside Out as well as Edward R. Murrow Awards for "Ahmad's War: Inside Out" and "Snakeheads and Slavery: Inside Out" a look at human trafficking in Britain. IN 1999 he was a fellow of the Shorenstein Center at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
He received Britain's highest radio honor, the Sony Award, for his series on the American Midwest, Homeward Bound. His other BBC work includes being a regular panelist on the World Television programme, Dateline,
His most recent book is, Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews From the Ghetto Led To Revolution and Renaissance.
Goldfarb has lectured at Stanford University, Wellesley College, UC Berkeley and the University of Missouri at St. Louis. For two summers he taught a for credit course on travel writing for NYU's School of Journalism in London.
You can listen to FRDH podcast at www.goldfarbpod.com and at http://soundcloud.com/michael-goldfarb-1.
